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Walt Rubel: Both laws and attitudes on policing need to change

6/2/2020

Fans of horror movies know there are always early scenes that tip you off to the terrible things that will come later.

I had that feeling last week as I watched the press conference held by prosecutors in Minnesota. I assumed that it was called to announce an arrest in the murder of George Floyd. I was wrong.

Cruces Update: June 1, 2020

6/1/2020

Hosts Peter Goodman and Walt Rubel reported the latest information on the COVID-19 pandemic. They also talked with Sonya L. Delgado, Director of Parks and Recreation for the City of Las Cruces about the opening up of the parks.

Cruces Update: May 29, 2020

5/29/2020

Hosts Peter Goodman and Walt Rubel reported the latest information on the COVID-19 pandemic. They also talked with Lindsey Bachman, chief deputy clerk for Doña Ana. She talked about the upcoming elections and the special procedures for voting this year.

Speak Up Las Cruces: U.S. Senate Candidate Gavin Clarkson

5/29/2020

On a May 29, 2020 special Friday edition of Speak Up, Las Cruces, Peter Goodman and Walt Rubel talked with Gavin Clarkson who's running in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate. A recording of the interview with his opponent, Elisa Martinez, can be heard here.

Speak Up Las Cruces: U.S. Senate Candidate Elisa Martinez

5/27/2020

On the May 27, 2020 edition of Speak Up, Las Cruces, Peter Goodman and Walt Rubel talked with Elisa Martinez, who's running in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate. One of her primary opponents, Mark Ronchetti, never responded to repeated invitations and attempts to contact him. The other, Gavin Clarkson, failed to appear through a no-fault miscommunication and quickly arranged with KTAL to appear in a special Speak Up, Las Cruces session Friday, and that half-hour discussion is available here.

Speak Up Las Cruces: Recent High School Graduates

5/27/2020

On the May 27, 2020 edition of Speak Up, Las Cruces, Peter Goodman and Walt Rubel talked with several recent graduates from Las Cruces high schools.

Cruces Update: May 25, 2020

5/25/2020

Hosts Peter Goodman and Walt Rubel reported the latest information on the COVID-19 pandemic.

Think Again: Psychologist Stuart Kelter

5/25/2020

Host Randy Harris and his guest Las Cruces psychologist Stuart Kelter explore how the Covid-19 pandemic is challenging all of us to maintain our physical and emotional health in this time of upheaval in our lives. Dr. Kelter discusses the steps we all need to take to stay connected with family and friends, pursue activities that give us pleasure, involvement in our community to support those in need, and enjoying the outdoors. A wide ranging discussion of the American character and how our focus on individualism, and the distrust of authority and intellectual elites, can pose a challenge when collective action limiting individual activities is the science based recommended response to the coronavirus.

All About Books: David Lee Summers

5/22/2020

Astronomer and prolific science fiction writer David Lee Summers returned to the show to discuss with Lynn Moorer his book of fiction, Firebrandt’s Legacy. Captain Ellison Firebrandt, a space pirate who kills and steals but with a conscience, operates his space ship Legacy under a letter of marque from the Earth Alliance group of planets. Using computer viruses and hepler pistols, if necessary, Firebrandt and his crew dock with other space ships with or without their permission to confiscate cargo or search out treasure. When they find and help themselves to a highly valuable intrasystem jump machine which, exploiting concepts identified by Einstein eons earlier, allows star vessels to jump quickly to another location within their system, a more advanced species, the Alpha Centaurans, come looking for the machine on the Legacy. Suki Mori, a young woman with an exceptional mind who Firebrandt rescues from another planet but who isn't sure she trusts Firebrandt, figures out how to make the machine work, then creates a counterfeit machine to hide the genuine article.

Speak Up Las Cruces: NM House District 34 Democratic candidates

5/20/2020

On the May 20, 2020 edition of Speak Up, Las Cruces, Walt Rubel and Peter Goodman talked with two of the Democratic primary candidates for NM House District 34 - Bill Gomez and Ray Lara.

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